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Molly Bang’s brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang’s powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to have interaction the feelings, and how the weather of an artwork may give it the facility to inform a story—remain unparalleled of their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way in which artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers have a look at and be aware art.